Benjamin Powell is the director of the Free Market Institute as well as a professor of economics in the Rawls College of Business Administration at Texas Tech University. The autho...view moreBenjamin Powell is the director of the Free Market Institute as well as a professor of economics in the Rawls College of Business Administration at Texas Tech University. The author or editor of five books and more than seventy-five scholarly articles, he has had work appear in The Financial Times, The Christian Science Monitor, as well as many major newspapers. He has also appeared on CNN, MSNBC, Showtime, and CNBC.view less